I forgot to mention one thing in my blog from last week. On that Friday afternoon Liam was in his high chair eating lunch and I could see one of our neighbors walking around outside. Naturally, I pulled open the curtains to spy and saw that she was walking around with a little baby lamb! I grabbed Liam out of his chair and took him outside to see the lamb. It was so little that it didn't even come up to Liam's shoulders. He even petted it too! I didn't get to get any pictures because we had hurried outside and I didn't have my phone on me. She said she was bottle feeding it for her sister then it was going to live on that sister's farm. We haven't seen it since, though, so I'm guessing it went on to its new home.
Sunday - Along with getting taller, Liam is becoming more adventurous. He climbed up into the McDonalds playplace by himself. Caleb was right behind him the whole time, but I'm not looking forward to all of the times that I'm going to have to climb in there to pull him out. Our church needs a new hang out place. ;-)
He also tried climbing up the slide.
Monday - Liam and I went for a walk collecting leaves. He enjoyed running around the park.
I'm not sure who Kathy Berck is, but Liam is apparently saddened by her passing.
Heading back to the van!
Tuesday - Liam and I made a leaf wreath with our leaf findings! Ok, I mostly made it. I got Liam to glue one leaf on but then he kept wanting to pull it back off.
Wednesday and Thursday I worked on stripping Liam's diapers. They were kind of getting a bit of a funk to them again.
Friday - Caleb and his friend Glenn have been planning a camping trip for about a month now. When I say planning, I mean like constantly texting each other about it and skyping so they could talk about it. Friday morning was finally the big day and we met Glenn and Leah in Hannibal, then Leah came home with me.
But first, before we went back to Centralia, we went to Lydia's house for her to take some overdue one year pictures of Liam. When we got to her house I set Liam down in their front yard. He climbed up their front steps and then this baby appeared in the window!
Here's one of the pictures she took. I can't wait to see the rest! I can't believe Lydia was able to get some good ones of him. I was really starting to doubt because he was not in any mood to sit still to get his picture taken. Especially not when he had Ellie and Leah to play with!
I don't know what you do when your friends come over to visit, but on Saturday Leah and I went and bought 12 pounds of shredded cheese. (It was a really good deal, ok?)
I got this picture off of Caleb's camera. This is the shelters Glenn and Caleb made and slept under.
Liam has pretty much gone down to just taking one nap a day now. :-( But that's ok, because he's a cute little booger and, even though I can't get as much done when he's awake, I like hanging out with him.
Here are some more pictures from this week:
I tried to take a picture to send to Amy and didn't realize my flash was on.
He doesn't look like he can sit rear-facing too much longer. Those legs are getting in his way!
We keep giving Liam all of our trash and he loves building towers out of them! He is always so proud of himself after he successfully gets things to stay on top of each other.
This current week we went to the Missouri Baptist Convention. The Missouri Baptists is basically a cooperative program for Southern
Baptist Churches in Missouri. They also fund different mission projects
and they also help fund things like HLG and other baptist colleges in
the state. They have a convention every year to discuss the business
side of those things and they also have several preachers come in and
preach sermons. I know that Caleb enjoys being able to sit and listen
to good preaching while he's there. So since my baby boy is napping and it's all still fresh on my mind, I'm going to go ahead and post about this week so far.
Sunday morning Liam snuggled up with me while we watched George before we left for church. :-)
That afternoon he also found the Alpha Bits box and took it upon himself to dig right on in.
I was packing up some diapers to take on our trip and when I opened this box of diapers that had been sitting in the living room all week, I found eight clothespins and several other MIA toys. I was wondering where he had hid all of his clothespins! I guess he thought the handles of the boxes were good places to drop things.
Monday - We got up early and had left the house by 7 am to go to Tan-Tar-A for the convention. Since Caleb's parents only live about 25 minutes away, we stayed at their house.
They also have an "exhibit" area with booths from different misson groups, colleges, and other things available through the Missouri Baptists. Most booths also give away free things! Liam went away with several rubber bracelets, a toothbrush, lots of candy, some frisbees, and lots of pens.This is a picture of the guy at the Historical Commission booth. It's hard to read the sign because I took the picture from a distance, but this guy's enthusiasm really shines through. I share with him in that enthusiasm.
Liam took a nap Monday afternoon on Grandma's lap.
Liam also really like the RA/GA booth where they had little people!
And he also really enjoyed "The Bucket Project" booth because they had a 5 gallon bucket he decided he needed to carry around.
They loved how much he loved their bucket. I found a picture on their facebook page of him sitting on this bucket. :-)
He also loved the Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief vehicle they had there.
Hannibal LaGrange had a booth and they were passing out "HLGU Alum" stickers to any alumni that stopped by. We all got one and wrote "future" on the boys' stickers. I got this picture off of the HLG facebook page.
We were on our way to dinner Monday night and this was my view going up the escalator.
By the time we got to the restaurant (it was a long walk with lots of stairs) he was all slumped over like this.
We had to wait awhile for a table so Liam checked out this bear. He was terrified of it at first. Seth got a good video of him where he wanted to pet it so bad but every time his hand got close, he freaked out and started crying. :-)
After dinner we went to the arcade and I watched the most intense game of whack-a-batman that I have ever seen.
Liam thought he had the best seat in the house Tuesday morning. He enjoyed hanging out on grandma and grandpa's laps during a sermon. I think it was a rough time for all three of them. :-)
Hanging out with my little man after he ate an entire bowl of chili. We hung out in the lobby and watched the world series game while we waited for the meetings to dismiss.
Wednesday morning this hunk had the morning prayer. He was too good-looking to not get a picture of him.
Liam finally succumbed to his exhaustion Wednesday morning after avoiding a nap all day on Tuesday (he was up running around for 14 hours!) Again, grandma didn't enjoy that at all. ;-)
Sunday - Since Liam cut his top teeth, he always wants to chew on his rubber toothbrush. I found these two cuties in the bathroom Sunday morning brushing away.
Liam wore his sweater vest to church. It is so cute! I tried to get a good picture of him with it, but that's not an easy task.
Monday - We had another Parents as Teachers visit. I really enjoy them! I like finding out information about activities I can do with Liam, finding out where he stands developmentally, etc. She also always brings activities for Liam to play with and he loves it. She brought a bottle with some clothespins for Liam to drop into the bottle. He loved it so much that she left him with two clothespins to play with. He figured out that they fit perfectly into the holes in his tool box!
We even had to take one to the grocery store with us that day to pick up a couple of things.
One thing that we don't like about our house is that we don't have gutters and the rain pours off of the roof right at our front steps. Liam enjoys it though. :-)
As of Monday it had been raining for several days. Caleb couldn't even park in our back driveway for a few days because it was under water. He parks in front of that black car, which is our neighbor's car.
Monday night Liam got his first hair cut with the clippers! I've always snipped at his hair before with just some little scissors, but Caleb took Liam upstairs this time and trimmed him up with his hair clippers. He did really well with it. I thought I was recording it on video, but it turns out that I pressed the wrong button on the camera. :-(
Tuesday - Liam and I went shopping in Columbia. I have been putting off doing my Target and Aldi shopping for a couple of weeks. If I don't go shopping then I won't spend money, right? We were well overdue for some groceries and Target had some great deals this week on things that I was needing to buy. Liam isn't a huge fan of shopping. He would much rather be down on the floor running around and getting into stuff. We did have to run into Orscheln and Liam saw a display box that had several different characters on it. Liam saw Curious George on it and he went over to it and hugged it and kissed George.
Thursday - Liam and I went for a walk. It ended up being 3 miles! We just walked around Centralia and we went to the park, the library, the grocery store, and to the church to visit Caleb.
He had his hat and jacket on and he was ready to go for a walk! And he likes to play his kazoo all the time.
He actually enjoyed the park!
Friday - I finished up making some presents for Karisha's baby shower!
I made her a nursing cover
Some burp cloths that match the nursing cover. (I put labels on everything so she would know what they were when she opened them.)
Some car seat strap covers
And a car seat blanket that matches.
Saturday - Saturday was the baby shower. I made a veggie tray to take. Her theme is owls so I made the veggie tray in the picture of an owl that I found on pinterest. I forgot to take a picture of it completely finished, but I put dip in the bowls and added an olive for each eye.
My parents also came on Saturday babysat the tot while I was at the shower.
After the shower we had a church hayride/bonfire.
Checking out the cows with grandma
Catena gave him a little chair that her kids outgrew. Liam had to check out every square inch of that chair.
He's ready to eat!
As we were leaving the bonfire our van got stuck in the mud. It got stuck pretty deep. The right front side of the van was stuck almost all of the way up to the bumper. Once we realized we were stuck, Caleb and my dad got out to try to push the van and they had me get in the drivers seat so I could push on the gas and put it in gear. When that didn't work then a bunch of guys came down to where we were parked to help. Since I was in the drivers seat by that time, apparently every one thought that I had gotten the van stuck. Even the next morning at church people were making comments about how I got the van stuck, so Caleb had to let them know that I had nothing to do with it. While they were working on getting the van out, little Jacob from church kept telling me that he didn't think we would ever get it out and he thought we were going to have to spend the night. He also kept going to Caleb and patting his shoulder and saying "This is some really bad luck." The guy whose house we were at went and got his tractor and pulled us out with ease. :-)
It's hard to see really well because it was so dark outside, but this is the tire that was stuck the worst.
All of the guys getting the van hooked up to the tractor to get it pulled out.
Here are some more pictures from this week:
This little boy and his belly are so stinkin cute.
Having some after dinner snuggles with dad while they watched Curious George. (He had a tomato for dinner which is why he had his shirt off)
I haven't put Liam's bumbo away yet. He fell into it and got stuck. (Along with a clothespin)
I had to buy a whole can of olives so I could use 2 for the eyes of the owl on the veggie tray. Fortunately Liam likes olives and their finger-sized holes.
Liam has a plush chair that he likes to flip over and stand on. We always ask him if he is preaching because it looks like a pulpit. One night this week I looked over and he was standing at his pulpit with his Bible story book out. He stood there and preached us a sermon.
Liam doesn't really like to wear hats much, but he likes to put them on his head. He kept coming over to me wearing a different hat.
The poor little guy also got stuck in his toy box this week. I can't stop laughing at these pictures.
